Mommy! I feel as if I am going to fall over!
One last* post on this topic, to ensure that I do all I can to justify
myself.
The customer in question was quite young and struck me as nice but naive;
he also struck me as exceedingly tall -- my younger brother is 6'2" and
this young man was noticeably taller.
At any rate, this young customer had a sort of appealing puppy dog quality
to him, and I am confident that this allure helped tipped my natural
shyness and reticence over the edge of righteous indignation. ("The
righteous indignation of a cop." Ed. Abby.)
More seriously: I live up to my astrological sign of Mars, and am combative
and easily raised to indignation, and I fully admit that my intervention
was not that of the meek and "turn the other cheek" variety. But, seriously
(still!) I think that, by Scotching (did I offend you?) that sale, I did
that young man a favor.
Over and out. For now.
Patrick Moore, surfing the serotonin rush from a nice, but hot (101*F!
Humid at 15%!) ride in hotterthan usual ABQ, NM.
* Hah!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Tim Gavin <tim.ga...@littlevillagemag.com>
wrote:
> I wonder if the owner of this bike was sold the "wrong" bike and then
> tried to remedy that? Or if he had this vision from the get-go?
>
>
>
> He has a Riv-approved bar height on those aero bars... but via some kind
> of stem-strosity.
>
> And his seat is wayyyy tall. This looks like the result of the "buy the
> smallest frame you can so you save weight" philosophy.
>
> Sigh.
>
> http://cedarrapids.craigslist.org/bik/4503706745.html
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For the record, the incident I related involved a case where the buyer,
>> had he bought, would have spent money on something ill fitting, therefore a
>> waste of money to that extent. This was not a matter of "taste". One may
>> feel obliged to remain silent even in such a case, but I did not.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Brewster Fong <bfd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 30, 2014 10:00:05 AM UTC-7, Garth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree Bobby ,
>>>>
>>>> I'm all for the support of a LBS. Yet am I based on own prejudices ,
>>>> going to interfere with their business ? This seems hypocritical . Yes,
>>>> saying my bike or riding my-way-is-thee-way is my own pre-judging
>>>> my-way-is-thee-way as thee-best-way.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agree, a shop is in the business of selling bikes. If it is that narrow
>>> minded to put on a buyer on the wrong bike, then I doubt that bike shop is
>>> going to be in business for very long. My LBS has been around since
>>> 1975. The owner is one of the best fitters in the SF Bay Area. But he sells
>>> all types of bikes. He has the latest carbon Time, Looks, Bianchis and
>>> Giants. He also sells the new Albion and other steel bikes from
>>> custom (formerly US distributor for Ron Cooper to Della Santa to the latest
>>> from the new Masi, Soma and Waterford). He also has a wall full of
>>> Colnagos including steel and carbon.
>>>
>>> But, the key is to put you on the type of bike that you will ride! If it
>>> means putting you the latest 14lb carbon wonder bike with your bar dropped
>>> 6 inches below the saddle and 11-23 11speed cassette, done. If you want a
>>> steel bike with bars higher than your saddle and 13-34 gearing with a
>>> triple, done! If you're a fat guy, like me (e.g., 200lb) and want carbon,
>>> no problem. But he's give you a compact crank (50/34) and low gearing
>>> (11-28; 12-30) to help you get up the hill. He will also "raise dat bar"
>>> when needed! Whatever works to get you on the road and enjoying your bike!
>>> Good Luck!
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it really ? Compared to who ? My choices work for me, if someone
>>>> wishes to emulate that in some way, great. If not, great .
>>>>
>>>> Would I like if I had business selling bikes, have customers
>>>> discouraging potential customers from buying my bikes ? . . . I think not
>>>> !
>>>>
>>>
>>>> There are many facets to the Golden Rule ! The shop owner qualifies as
>>>> someone whom I wish well for also , not just a customer I think is being
>>>> taken advantage of. Vengeance and self-righteousness can be very subtle ,
>>>> like a calm sea masking the tsumani within it.
>>>>
>>>> All THAT said . .. lol . . . there is no absolute right or wrong
>>>> answer, just infinite ways of answering . This, is Life.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, June 30, 2014 11:42:05 AM UTC-4, Montclair BobbyB
>>>> wrote:Caveat emptor... I personally wouldn't interfere with a conversation
>>>> between a bike shop employee and a potential customer, even if I'm cringing
>>>> (unless explicitly asked for my opinion)... It's entirely the choice of the
>>>> buyer to seek advice from the bike shop and for the buyer to decide based
>>>> on whatever he/she feels is right for them (whether right or wrong in my
>>>> mind). It's not my place to intercede.
>>>>
>>>> While I gain personal satisfaction knowing I have 'converted' several
>>>> people's thinking towards the Rivish bikestyle, I try not to impose my
>>>> beliefs too strongly, I simply demonstrate by example. Those who scoff at
>>>> my bike preferences (as being different from their own), well that's
>>>> entirely their choice, and more power to them. I have a good friend who
>>>> rides a beautiful Dario Pegoretti road bike (and only rarely,
>>>> unfortunately), and every time I show him a new bike I'm working on, the
>>>> first things he ALWAYS does is lift it and shake his head. (In my mind he
>>>> just doesn't get it, whereas I'm sure he thinks I'm nuts)... Suum
>>>> cuique...
>>>>
>>>> BB
>>>>
>>>>
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* "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never
was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.
Where is there a place for you to be? No place.*
* "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to
look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind
it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into
somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your
daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is
all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was
any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there,
because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where
in your time and your body can they be?*
* "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried.
"Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where
Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of
you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood *
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